(Photo: Clarence Tabb Jr., Detroit News)
Detroit — From a traditional basketball standpoint, Andre Drummond is a fine player. He’s large, he rebounds, he’s durable.
From a team-building, forward-thinking standpoint, Drummond presents a rare conundrum, a Drummondrum, if you will. It’s hard to make him fit in today’s NBA, with its reliance on wing athleticism, pick-and-roll guards and deep shooters at every position, including center.
The Pistons have tried to make him fit, tried to convince everyone it can work. It might work somewhere but there’s scant evidence it can work here, where the Pistons have failed to find shooters to complement him and haven’t won a single playoff game in Drummond’s tenure.